TY  - JOUR
AU  - Edmonds,Eric V.
AU  - Shrestha,Maheshwor
TI  - The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling: Evidence from UNICEF MICS Countries
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 18623
PY  - 2012
Y2  - December 2012
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18623
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18623.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Eric V. Edmonds
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
6106 Rockefeller Hall
Hanover, NH  03755
Tel: 603/646-2944
Fax: 603/646-2122
E-Mail: Eric.V.Edmonds@Dartmouth.edu

Maheshwor Shrestha
50 Memorial Drive
E52-391
Cambridge, MA 02142
E-Mail: mahesh68@mit.edu
AB  - Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low-income countries, we observe that age can explain less than 1 percent of the variation in child participation in paid employment. In contrast, child-invariant household attributes account for 63 percent of the variation in participation in paid employment. While age may explain little of the variation in paid employment, minimum age of employment regulation could simultaneously impact time allocation. We do not observe evidence consistent with enforcement of minimum age regulation in any country examined, although light work regulation appears to have been enforced in one country.
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